Unit 5 Working the land Reading and Thinking 任务单-2024-2025学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

学习任务单 课程基本信息 学科 英语 年级 高二 学期 秋季 课题 Unit 5 Working the Land——Reading and Thinking: A Pioneer for All People 教科书 人教版 学习目标 1. read about agricultural scientist Yuan Longping. 2. summarize the process of hybrid rice. 3. learn from Yuan’s spirit in his research. 课前学习任务 Words review pioneer__________ shortage__________ crisis__________ convince__________ assumption__________ characteristic__________ output__________ consumption__________ leisure__________ in crisis _______________ pursue a career_________ far from______________ work the land_________ be comprised of________ deep down ___________ devote__________ tackle__________ boost__________ overcome__________ expand__________ domestic__________ generate__________ celebrity__________ vision__________ grain__________ attain__________ 课上学习任务 【学习任务一】Read the theme picture and answer questions. (P. 49) 1. What do you see in the photo? 2. Where was it taken? 3. Have you ever been to a place like this? 4. What do you know about Yuan? 【学习任务二】Predict what will the passage talk about Yuan according to the title and the picture. 【学习任务三】Fast-reading Match the main idea and summarize into one key word. Scan for Yuan’s identities in para. 1 What does Yuan consider himself? Why? Scan for more details by completing the timeline in para. 2-6. 【学习任务四】Thinking: How did Yuan become a pioneer. 【学习任务五】Language analysis What writing techniques does the author use to exhibit Yuan Longping's qualities? What writing techniques does the author use to exhibit Yuan Longping’s contributions in para. 4? 【学习任务六】Thinking Why is Yuan called a pioneer for all people and what kind of person is Yuan? 推荐的学习资源 文章源自美国《华盛顿邮报》——深切缅怀，国之伟人 Scientist Yuan Longping, whose rice research helped feed people in many countries, dies at 91.  Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported. He was 91.    Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname “Father of Hybrid Rice.” Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan’s breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he won in 2004.  On Saturday afternoon, large crowds honored the scientist by marching past the hospital in Hunan province where he died, local media reported, calling out phrases such as: “Grandpa Yuan, have a good journey!” It was in the 1970s when Yuan achieved the breakthroughs that would make him a household name. He developed a hybrid strain of rice that recorded an annual yield 20% higher than existing varieties — meaning it could feed an extra 70 million people a year, according to Xinhua.  His work helped transform China from “food deficiency to food security” within three decades, according to the World Food Prize, which was created by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug in 1986 to recognize scientists and others who have improved the quality and availability of food.   Yuan and his team worked with dozens of countries around the world to address issues of food security as well as malnutrition.  Even in his later years, Yuan did not stop doing research. In 2017, working with a Hunan agricultural school, he helped create a strain of low-cadmium indica rice for areas suffering from heavy metal pollution, reducing the amount of cadmium in rice by more than 90%. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$